Police talk to witnesses after a man was stabbed in the chest in front of hundreds of onlookers. Picture by Peter Lorimer.Source: News Corp Australia

Man, 43, rushed to hospital after attwempting to break up row

Attack happened in King Street Park, Marketown

Another man, in his 40s, hunted by police

A MAN stabbed in a busy Newcastle street during the lunchtime rush chased his attacker down the street.

The 43-year-old, named as Byron by witnesses, was stabbed once in the chest after intervening in a domestic argument outside the Marketown shopping centre.

His attacker fled before scores of police flooded Little Birdwood Park on King St at 1pm.

David Stone said a man and a woman were violently arguing in the park before Byron and another man intervened.

“He chased the fella for a distance and then he was lie ‘whoosh I’d better sit down’. He’d been hit in the sternum, it did not penetrate. It do not seem like it went in between the ribs. Adrenalin kept him going,” he said.

Police at the scene of a stabbing at Newcastle. Witnesses said the man intervened in an argument between a man and a woman and was stabbed. Picture by Peter Lorimer.Source: News Corp Australia

“He tried to stop it (a possible domestic assault) when the guy’s pulled out a knife and got him straight on. It was fold-up knife.

“It was confusion. Everyone just running everywhere saying ‘Byron’s been stabbed, Byron’s been stabbed’. It was just crazy.”

It’s a terrible incident and horrific for the victim and witnesses

Police are hunting a man who allegedly stabbed another man in the chest at Newcastle. Picture by Peter Lorimer.Source: News Corp Australia

Mr Stone said the men did not know and police said the attack was “not random”.

Byron, from Hamilton South, was rushed to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.

Police Inspector Trevor Shiels said police were looking for a man in his 40s.

“It’s a terrible incident and horrific for the victim and witnesses,” he said.

Little Birdwood Park is well known to police and is next to a major bus stop and a Coles supermarket. Insp Shiels said it was regularly patrolled by police.

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